"MC Hammer Stanley Kirk Burrell (born March 30, 1962), better known by his stage name MC Hammer (or simply Hammer), is an American hip hop recording artist, dancer, record producer and entrepreneur. He had his greatest commercial success and popularity from the late 1980s, until the early 1990s. Remembered for his rapid rise to fame, Hammer is known for hit records (such as ""U Can't Touch This"" and ""2 Legit 2 Quit""), flashy dance movements, choreography and eponymous Hammer pants. A multi-award winner, M.C. Hammer is considered a ""forefather/pioneer"" and innovator of pop rap (incorporating elements of ), and is"
"Summer Holiday (1963 film) Summer Holiday is a British CinemaScope and Technicolor musical film featuring singer Cliff Richard. The film was directed by Peter Yates (his debut), produced by Kenneth Harper. The original screenplay was written by Peter Myers and Ronald Cass (who also wrote most of the song numbers and lyrics). The cast includes Lauri Peters, Melvyn Hayes, Teddy Green, Jeremy Bulloch, Una Stubbs, Pamela Hart, Jacqueline Daryl, Lionel Murton, Madge Ryan, David Kossoff, Nicholas Phipps, Ron Moody and The Shadows. Herbert Ross choreographed the musical numbers. The film had its World Premiere at the Warner Theatre in London's"
"Ringo Starr Sir Richard Starkey (born 7 July 1940), known professionally as Ringo Starr, is an English musician, singer, songwriter and actor who gained worldwide fame as the drummer for the Beatles. He occasionally sang lead vocals, usually for one song on an album, including ""With a Little Help from My Friends"", ""Yellow Submarine"", ""Good Night"", and their cover of ""Act Naturally"". He also wrote the Beatles' songs ""Don't Pass Me By"" and ""Octopus's Garden"", and is credited as a co-writer of others, including ""What Goes On"" and ""Flying"". Starr was afflicted by life-threatening illnesses during childhood, and he fell"
"Young Ones"". The stage musical was revived in 2003, starring Stefan Booth but later starring Darren Day again. This production also included Day's future partner Suzanne Shaw (from the pop group Hear'say) as Bobby and, as Shaw's mother, Aimi MacDonald. The production toured the UK. Summer Holiday (1963 film) Summer Holiday is a British CinemaScope and Technicolor musical film featuring singer Cliff Richard. The film was directed by Peter Yates (his debut), produced by Kenneth Harper. The original screenplay was written by Peter Myers and Ronald Cass (who also wrote most of the song numbers and lyrics). The cast includes"
"to open an exhibition of her work at the Mathew Street art gallery, which is close to the former site of The Cavern Club. She appeared as a guest at the city's Beatles Week Festival during the August Bank Holiday. Kirchherr's work has been exhibited internationally in places, such as Hamburg, Bremen, London, Liverpool, New York City, Washington D.C., Tokyo, Vienna, and at the Rock 'n' Roll Hall of Fame. In 1967, Kirchherr married English drummer Gibson Kemp (born Gibson Stewart Kemp, 1945, Liverpool, Lancashire), who had replaced Ringo Starr in Rory Storm and the Hurricanes. The marriage ended in"
"months of 1963. The film suggested to the photographer Daniel Meadows a way in which he might emulate Benjamin Stone and travel around and photograph Britain from 1973 to 1974. It was voted the 99th greatest family film in a Channel 4 poll. ""Summer Holiday"" was adapted into a stage musical in the mid-1990s starring Darren Day in the role that Cliff Richard played. It premiered for a summer season at The Opera House in Blackpool in 1996, and then later toured nationally, before returning to Blackpool in 1998. The cast for these included Claire Buckfield, Isla Fisher, Hilary O'Neil,"
"The film starts in 1961, when the Silver Beatles (as they were called then) consisted of John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Stuart Sutcliffe. They need a drummer and a manager, and although Sutcliffe can sing, he cannot play an instrument. The only reason Stu is in the band because he is John's friend and none of the others want to play the bass guitar. They go and audition for an agent, where they meet Rory Storm and the Hurricanes, and become good friends with the Hurricanes' drummer, Ringo Starr. The agent at the audition says that if they"
"the recording is nothing like Starr's. Four home demos were also included on the CD release. Rory Storm Rory Storm (7 January 1938 – 28 September 1972) was an English musician and vocalist. Born Alan Ernest Caldwell in Liverpool, Storm was the singer and leader of Rory Storm and the Hurricanes, a Liverpudlian band who were contemporaries of the Beatles in the late 1950s and early 1960s. Ringo Starr was the drummer for the Hurricanes before joining the Beatles in August 1962, replacing original drummer Pete Best. The Hurricanes were one of the most popular acts on the Liverpool and"
"Summer Holiday (album) Summer Holiday, is a soundtrack album by Cliff Richard and The Shadows to the film of the same name. It is their second film soundtrack album and Richard's eighth album overall. The album topped the UK Albums Chart for 14 weeks. Three singles from the album were released, beginning with the double A-side single, ""The Next Time"" and ""Bachelor Boy"", followed by ""Summer Holiday"" and lastly ""Foot Tapper"" (by the Shadows). All three topped the UK Singles Chart. A ""special edition"" double-album (limited to 80 copies) was given to the cast and crew of the movie and"
"has since become very collectible, with an original selling for £498 in 2010. Side one Side two Summer Holiday (album) Summer Holiday, is a soundtrack album by Cliff Richard and The Shadows to the film of the same name. It is their second film soundtrack album and Richard's eighth album overall. The album topped the UK Albums Chart for 14 weeks. Three singles from the album were released, beginning with the double A-side single, ""The Next Time"" and ""Bachelor Boy"", followed by ""Summer Holiday"" and lastly ""Foot Tapper"" (by the Shadows). All three topped the UK Singles Chart. A ""special"
"Summer Holiday (song) ""Summer Holiday"" is a song recorded by Cliff Richard and The Shadows, written by rhythm guitarist Bruce Welch and drummer Brian Bennett. It is taken from the film of the same name, and was released as the second single from the film in February 1963. It went to number one in the UK Singles Chart for a total of three weeks, as had the first single from the film, ""The Next Time"". After ""Summer Holiday"" had spent two weeks at number one, The Shadows' instrumental ""Foot Tapper"" - also from the same film - took over the"
"the rooftop of a skyscraper. ""Paddington"" (2014) features several London locations, and includes modern landmarks such as The Shard and the London Eye. Cliff Richard was a film star with three successful musical comedies in the early 1960s. The first of these, ""The Young Ones"" (1961), was set in London. Cliff, The Shadows, and others need money to save their youth club, so they set up a pirate radio station to generate publicity for the show. Although Cliff's second hit, ""Summer Holiday"" (1963), mostly took place while driving across Europe, it prominently featured a red London AEC, RT bus. The"
"Ringo Starr filmography In addition to the Beatles' films ""A Hard Day's Night"" (1964), ""Help!"" (1965), ""Magical Mystery Tour"" (1967), ""Yellow Submarine"" (1968) and ""Let It Be"" (1970), Ringo Starr also acted in films such as ""Candy"" (1968), ""The Magic Christian"" (1969, alongside Peter Sellers), ""Blindman"" (1971), ""Son of Dracula"" (1974) and ""Caveman"" (1981). Starr directed and appeared in ""Born to Boogie"" (1972), a concert film featuring Marc Bolan and T. Rex. For the 1979 documentary film on the Who, ""The Kids Are Alright"", Starr appeared in interview segments with fellow drummer Keith Moon. He starred as Larry the Dwarf"
"Heißer Sommer Heißer Sommer, aka Hot Summer (USA), is a 1968 East German musical film. A 2001 video release promotes the film as ""The East German ""Grease"""" although perhaps it is closer in concept to the 1963 British movie ""Summer Holiday"" which starred Cliff Richard. A group of girls and a separate group of boys come across each other whilst travelling from Leipzig to Ruegen Island for the summer holidays. Initially trying to ignore and avoid each other, the two groups find themselves billeted close by, relaxing together, enjoying each other's company and the resulting relationships that develop. The movie"
"appeared in interview segments with fellow drummer Keith Moon. Since the breakup of the Beatles, Starr has released 19 solo studio albums: Ringo Starr Sir Richard Starkey (born 7 July 1940), known professionally as Ringo Starr, is an English musician, singer, songwriter and actor who gained worldwide fame as the drummer for the Beatles. He occasionally sang lead vocals, usually for one song on an album, including ""With a Little Help from My Friends"", ""Yellow Submarine"", ""Good Night"", and their cover of ""Act Naturally"". He also wrote the Beatles' songs ""Don't Pass Me By"" and ""Octopus's Garden"", and is credited"
"Rory Storm Rory Storm (7 January 1938 – 28 September 1972) was an English musician and vocalist. Born Alan Ernest Caldwell in Liverpool, Storm was the singer and leader of Rory Storm and the Hurricanes, a Liverpudlian band who were contemporaries of the Beatles in the late 1950s and early 1960s. Ringo Starr was the drummer for the Hurricanes before joining the Beatles in August 1962, replacing original drummer Pete Best. The Hurricanes were one of the most popular acts on the Liverpool and Hamburg club scenes during their existence, although their attempt at a recording career was not successful."
"Street"" in 1984. Starr also appeared as himself, and downtrodden alter-ego Ognir Rrats, in ""Ringo"" (1978), an American-made television comedy film based loosely on ""The Prince and the Pauper"". Ringo Starr filmography In addition to the Beatles' films ""A Hard Day's Night"" (1964), ""Help!"" (1965), ""Magical Mystery Tour"" (1967), ""Yellow Submarine"" (1968) and ""Let It Be"" (1970), Ringo Starr also acted in films such as ""Candy"" (1968), ""The Magic Christian"" (1969, alongside Peter Sellers), ""Blindman"" (1971), ""Son of Dracula"" (1974) and ""Caveman"" (1981). Starr directed and appeared in ""Born to Boogie"" (1972), a concert film featuring Marc Bolan and T."
"case. Cliff Richard's 1958 hit ""Move It"" is widely regarded as the first authentic British rock and roll record, and ""laid the foundations"" for the Beatles and Merseybeat music. John Lennon said of Richard: ""before Cliff and the Shadows, there had been nothing worth listening to in British music"". In contrast with contemporaries such as Marty Wilde, Billy Fury and Adam Faith, his successful performing and recording career in the UK has extended over several decades. Cliff Richard Sir Cliff Richard, (born Harry Rodger Webb, 14 October 1940) is a British pop singer, musician, performer, actor and philanthropist. Richard has"
"Rapper MC Hammer was featured on the single ""The Blood"" at the height of his career. In 1992, the song peaked at No. 8 on Billboard's Christian Adult Contemporary chart. A holiday release titled ""First Christmas"" followed in 1993. This album showcased BeBe's production skills and led to him doing production work with Whitney Houston on the soundtrack for the movie """" as well as production and writing music for artists such as Gladys Knight, Bobby Brown, The Clark Sisters and his younger sisters Angie and Debbie Winans. 1994 saw the release of their studio album ""Relationships"", featuring the notable"
"combination of the American situation, Cliff Richard's runaway success (""Living Doll"" had by now sold over a million copies in Britain alone) and a bit of nudging from Norrie Paramor, we set about finding a permanent name, which arrived out of the blue one summer's day in July 1959 (maybe the 19th). When Hank Marvin and Jet Harris took off on their scooters up to the Six Bells pub at Ruislip, Jet hit upon a name straight away. 'What about the Shadows?' The lad was a genius! So we became the Shadows for the first time on Cliff's sixth single"
"They eventually accepted, joining the Beatles at Bruno Koschmiders Kaiserkeller on 1 October 1960, where Starr first met the band. Storm's Hurricanes were given top-billing over the Beatles, who also received less pay. Starr performed with the Beatles during a few stand-in engagements while in Hamburg. On 15 October 1960, he drummed with John Lennon, Paul McCartney and George Harrison, recording with them for the first time while backing Hurricanes singer Lu Walters on the George Gershwin/DuBose Heyward aria ""Summertime"". During Starr's first stay in Hamburg he also met Tony Sheridan, who valued his drumming abilities to the point of"
"Cliff Richard Sir Cliff Richard, (born Harry Rodger Webb, 14 October 1940) is a British pop singer, musician, performer, actor and philanthropist. Richard has sold more than 250 million records worldwide. He has total sales of over 21 million singles in the United Kingdom and is the third-top-selling artist in UK Singles Chart history, behind the Beatles and Elvis Presley. Richard was originally marketed as a rebellious rock and roll singer in the style of Elvis and Little Richard. With his backing group, the Shadows, Richard dominated the British popular music scene in the pre-Beatles period of the late 1950s"
"Help! (film) Help! is a 1965 British musical comedy-adventure film directed by Richard Lester, starring the Beatles–John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr—and featuring Leo McKern, Eleanor Bron, Victor Spinetti, John Bluthal, Roy Kinnear and Patrick Cargill. The second film starring The Beatles following Lester's ""A Hard Day's Night"", ""Help!"" sees Ringo as the human sacrifice for an evil cult and the band must protect him. The soundtrack was released as an album, also called ""Help!"". The film had its Royal World Premiere at the London Pavilion Theatre in the West End of London on 29 July 1965"
"at short notice when Best did not turn up on the evening of his dismissal and for two subsequent bookings, until Ringo Starr was able to join. Starr was well known to the group, as he was then playing with Rory Storm and the Hurricanes, the resident group at Butlins' holiday complex in Skegness. He had also occasionally replaced Best when the drummer was ill, and had performed at a recording session with Lennon, McCartney, and Harrison in Hamburg. The Beatles made their last official live appearance in Britain on 1 May 1966, at the NME Annual Poll-Winners' All-Star Concert"
"for ""Taking a Trip to Carolina"" and received joint songwriting credits with the other Beatles for ""12-Bar Original"", ""Los Paranoias"", ""Christmas Time (Is Here Again)"", ""Suzy Parker"" from the ""Let It Be"" film, and ""Jessie's Dream"" from the ""Magical Mystery Tour"" film. When Starr married Maureen Cox in 1965, Beatles manager Brian Epstein was best man, with Starr's stepfather Harry Graves and fellow Beatle George Harrison as witnesses. Soon afterwards, the couple's matrimony became the subject of a US novelty song, ""Treat Him Tender, Maureen"", by the Chicklettes. Starr and Maureen had three children together: Zak (born 13 September 1965),"
"Ringo (album) Ringo is the third studio album by Ringo Starr, released in 1973 on Apple Records. It peaked at No. 7 on the UK Albums Chart and No. 2 on the ""Billboard"" 200, and has been certified platinum by the RIAA. In Canada, it reached No. 1 on the ""RPM"" national albums chart. The album is noted for the appearance of all four Beatles, and for its numerous guest stars, something which would become a signature for Starr on many of his subsequent albums and tours. After releasing the standards tribute ""Sentimental Journey"" and the country and western ""Beaucoups"
"Records. For the 1991 CD reissue of ""Ringo"", the album was expanded through the inclusion of three bonus tracks, the last of which was the long-unavailable ""Down and Out"". In 2009, ""Photograph"" was featured in the Judd Apatow-directed film ""Funny People"" and appeared on the accompanying soundtrack album. Following his return to touring in July 1989 – the first tour for Starr since the Beatles quit performing live in 1966<ref name=""Sandall/Q"">Sandall, Robert (January 1991). ""Ringo Starr"". ""Q"". Available at Rock's Backpages (""subscription required"").</ref> – he has played ""Photograph"" regularly with the various incarnations of his All-Starr Band. Eschewing his drum"
"selling over one million copies in the UK. The irreverent 1980s TV sitcom ""The Young Ones"" took its name from Richard's 1962 film. In mid-1963, Cliff and the Shadows appeared for a season in Blackpool, where Richard had his portrait modelled by Victor Heyfron. As with the other existing rock acts in Britain, Richard's career was affected by the advent of the Beatles and the Mersey sound in 1963 and 1964. He continued to have hits in the charts throughout the 1960s, though not at the level that he had enjoyed before. Nor did doors open to him in the"
"to their husbands. By that time, Klein had been the manager of the Beatles, and Swimmer had directed many of their music videos and concert films. Both were producers on ""Blindman"", and their presence led to Ringo Starr accepting a supporting role as one of the bandits. Starr would produce Anthony's next film, which Swimmer would direct: a road movie called ""Come Together"". In this film, Anthony plays an American stuntman working on Spaghetti Westerns in Rome. The film contains behind the scenes-footage of a Spaghetti Western being shot. In 1975, long after the heyday of the genre, Anthony starred"
"the Neil Aspinall-Mal Evans-produced Beatles documentary ""Let It Be"" (1970), Swimmer and his indie-movie colleague Tony Anthony co-wrote and co-directed the surrealistic US-Italy road movie ""Come Together"" (1971), produced by Beatle Ringo Starr and inspired by the Beatles song ""Come Together""; and produced a Spaghetti Western about a blind but deadly gunfighter, ""Blindman"" (1971; also known as ""Il Ciceo"" and ""Il Pistolero Ciceo""), starring Anthony and Starr. The following year, Swimmer directed ""The Concert for Bangladesh"", organized by Beatle George Harrison with Ravi Shankar. They along with Starr, Eric Clapton, Bob Dylan, Billy Preston, Leon Russell and others performed to"
"set on 30 October 2007 in the UK and 6 November 2007 in America. This latest release contains new featurettes, three trailers (one of which is in Spanish), and the aforementioned radio ads carried over from the Criterion LaserDisc issue. The film was released on Blu-ray format in June 2013 by Universal Music, now the owners of EMI/Capitol Records, using the 2007 restoration. Help! (film) Help! is a 1965 British musical comedy-adventure film directed by Richard Lester, starring the Beatles–John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr—and featuring Leo McKern, Eleanor Bron, Victor Spinetti, John Bluthal, Roy Kinnear and"
"Startling Music Startling Music is a music publishing company, founded by musician Ringo Starr, drummer of the Beatles. Starr had initially been signed to Northern Songs, the company set up by publisher Dick James and Beatles manager Brian Epstein on behalf of the band in 1963. As the main songwriting Beatles, John Lennon and Paul McCartney drew a larger share of benefits (and royalties) from their contract, while Starr and George Harrison were sometimes given second-class treatment, and found their songs and interests under-promoted by the company. When Northern Songs was turned into a public company, Starr and Harrison were"
"started on 5 March 1973, upon Starr's arrival in Los Angeles at Sunset Sound Recorders. Sessions were produced by Richard Perry. When Starr sent word to all his musician friends to help him in his new venture, they all responded positively. Taking part in the sessions were Marc Bolan, four members of The Band (save Richard Manuel), Billy Preston, Klaus Voormann, Nicky Hopkins, Harry Nilsson and Jim Keltner. Additionally, all three of his former bandmates appeared on and composed material for ""Ringo"". ""Photograph"" had been written on 15 May 1971, while on a sailing holiday with his wife Maureen, Harrison"